Festival Of Stocks

I am pleased to welcome you to the 176th Edition of the Festival Of Stocks. The Festival Of Stocks is a carnival dedicated to featuring posts on a variety of stock market topics by other bloggers. Enjoy!

• Investing in 2010: the opportunity continues (Dash Of Insight)

• How years ending in zero have performed (Big Picture)

• What should a new investor be told to do? (Monevator)

• 2010 retirement plan contribution limits (Trees Full Of Money)

• Investing in a taxable account (The Oblivious Investor)

• 7 things to know about Roth IRA rules for 2010 (Good Financial Cents)

• Optimizing your asset allocation (Dividends Value)

• S&P 500 & Nasdaq correlations yield valuable information (CSS Analytics)

• Using the 200 day MA (Chart.ly)

• Time to fade the Wall Street strategists? (Bespoke)

• Beat the market with market timing (Stock Chartist)

• Mean reversion in earnings (Greenbackd)

• A long-term look at inflation (dshort)

• 10 ETFs to protect against inflation (ETFdb)

• The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats (Bargaineering)

• 6 dividend stocks increasing their yield (Dividends Value)

• An overview of the magic formula investing strategy (Magic Diligence)

• Screening for profitable dividend growers (Intelligent Speculator)

• A stock screening report for value-oriented investors (Manual Of Ideas)

• Special situations real money portfolio returns (Fat Pitch Financials)

• Want to day trade? Try paper trading first! (The Digerati Life)

• Trading as I see it (Derek Hernquist)

• What's the biggest trap for traders? The need to be right! (Tischendorf Letter)

• Trading is not about being right, it's about being on the right side (Trying2Trade)

• How to develop trading expertise (StockBee)

• Market timing: do you really have what it takes? (Traders Log)

• Your mind, not your hardware or software, is your ultimate trading tool (TraderFeed)

• When trading, never add to a losing position (Internet Stock Trading For Beginners)

• Does switching Wall Street compensation to stock really decrease risk-taking? (Darwin's Finance)

• Why are we letting Wall Street off so easy? (Mother Jones)

• Why the Fed likes independence (Financial Trends Matter)

• 10 things not to buy in 2010 (Free Money Finance)

• 5 money resolutions for 2010 (Christian PF)

• Economists named the cheapest people on Earth (Clark Howard)

• A field guide to know your market bears (Reformed Broker)

• "Markets are quite efficient in distributing information but that neither market participants as individuals nor market participants as a whole are entirely rational." - Justin Fox (A Private Portfolio)

An archive of previous festivals can be found here. Next week's Festival of Stocks will be hosted at SINLetter.com. If you have posts you'd like to see included in the upcoming festival, please submit your best ideas. Thank you!